Chapter XXXIII: Part 33

MALMESBURY, JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, 3 Earl of (eld. son of James
Edward Harris, 2 earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). _b._ Spring
Gardens, London 25 March 1807; styled viscount Fitz-Harris
1820–41; ed. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, D.C.L. 7 June
1853; M.P. Wilton, July to 10 Sep. 1841 when he succeeded to
the earldom; sec. of state foreign affairs 27 Feb. to 28 Dec.
1852 and 26 Feb. 1858, resigned 18 June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852;
G.C.B. 15 June 1859; lord privy seal 6 July 1866 to 9 Dec. 1868
and 21 Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1876; conservative leader in house of
lords Feb. to Dec. 1868; edited Diaries and correspondence of
James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury 4 vols. 1844; A series of
letters of the first earl of Malmesbury 2 vols. 1870; author of
Revision of the game laws 1848; Memoirs of an ex-minister, an
autobiography 2 vols. 1884, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ Heron court near
Bournemouth at 1 a.m. 17 May 1889. _bur._ under the choir of
Priory church, Christchurch 22 May. _The Times 18 May 1889 p._
14; _London sketch book_, _Aug. 1884_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_
248 (1852) _portrait_, _xxxii_ 250, 260 (1858) _portrait_, l
132, 142 (1867) _portrait_, _lxiv_ 365, 366 (1874) _portrait_;
_Illust. news of the world_ (1862), _portrait of his wife_.

MALONE, JOSEPH. _b._ 30 Nov. 1832; private in British army;
sergeant 13 hussars; riding master 6 dragoons 7 Sep. 1858 to
death; V.C. 25 Sep. 1857 for his brave conduct at battle of
Balaclava 25 Oct. 1854; hon. captain 1 July 1881. _d._ 12 July
1883.

MALTBY, EDWARD (son of George Maltby of Norwich, master weaver
and a presbyterian, _d._ Aug. 1794 aged 64). _b._ parish of
St. George of Tombland, Norwich 6 April 1770; ed. at Norwich
gr. sch. 1779–85, at Winchester and Pemb. coll. Camb., Craven
scholar 1791; chancellor’s medallist and 8th wrangler 1792;
B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794, B.D. 1801, D.D. 1806; domestic chaplain
to bishop of Lincoln; V. of Buckden, Hunts. 1794–1823; V. of
Holbeach, Lincoln 1794–1831; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1794 to
death; preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1824–33; bishop of Chichester
1 Oct. 1831 to 1836; translated to Durham 8 June 1836, resigned
1856 on pension of £4500 a year; fellow of univ. of London
1836–59; F.R.S. 19 Feb. 1824; author of Illustrations of the
truth of the Christian religion. Cambridge 1802, 3 ed. 1803;
Lexicon Grœceprosodiacum. By T. Morell. Cambridge 1815, 2 ed.
1824; A new and complete Greek gradus 1830, 3 ed. 1850, and
20 other books; left his library to Durham univ. _d._ 4 Upper
Portland place, London 3 July 1859, his portrait by sir Wm.
Beechey in 1832 is at Durham. _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_
(1842) 386–8.

MALTBY, MRS. HARRIET. _b._ 1763; a friend of W. Wilberforce, W.
Pitt, Hannah More and other celebrities; a large contributor to
the Bath charities. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 22 Dec. 1852. _The
Bath Chronicle 30 Dec. 1852 p._ 4.

MALTBY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Brough Maltby of Mansion
house st. London, wholesale draper). _b._ London 17 Jany. 1763;
ed. at Hackney and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb.; solicitor
with his brother Rowland Maltby; barrister G.I. 23 June 1787;
principal librarian of London Institution 1 Feb, 1809, removed
and rearranged the books twice in 1811 from 8 Old Jewry to
King’s arms yard, Coleman st. and in 1818 to 11 Finsbury circus,
superannuated 1834; contributed to A. Dyce’s Recollections of
the table talk of Samuel Rogers 1856, an appendix entitled
Porsoniana pp. 295–334. _d._ London Institution, 11 Finsbury
circus 5 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _G.M. xli_ 209–10
(1854).

MAMMATT, EDWARD. _b._ 1807; became blind when very young;
learnt music; delivered lectures on sound, electricity,
geology, pneumatics, astronomy, &c.; manager of the Burton
brewery co.; composed, printed and bound a poem about 1842;
invented a machine to assist the blind in writing, for which he
received thanks of Society of Arts and was made a member. _d._
Ashby-de-la-Zouch 23 April 1860.

MAN, WILLIAM (son of William Man). _b._ Dec. 1818; travelled
over North America; visited Ceylon, the Australian colonies,
Mauritius and the Seychelles; with Mr. Rarey travelled in
the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Arabia; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1872; of
Bromley, St. Leonard’s and Woodford, Essex. _d._ 16 May 1881.
_Proc. of royal geog. soc. iii_ 567 (1881).

MANBY, CHARLES (eld. son of Aaron Manby, engineer 1776–1850).
_b._ 4 Feb. 1804; ed. at St. Servan, Brittany; joined his
father at Horseley ironworks, Tipton; in charge of his father’s
gasworks at Paris 1823; superintended his father’s foundry
at Charenton; managed the Beaufort iron works in South Wales
1829; a civil engineer in London 1835–9; A.I.C.E. 2 May 1837,
M.I.C.E. 19 Nov. 1850, secretary of Instit. of C.E. 1839–56
when presented with a service of plate and £2000, hon. sec.
1856; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; member of international commission
for considering feasibility of constructing the Suez canal;
lieut.-col. of engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21
Jany. 1865; received freedom of the Turners’ company 10 Feb.
1879; edited Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of civil
engineers, vol. 7, 1848, and with J. Forrest and H. S. Eaton
2 Catalogues of the library of the institution 1851 and 1866.
_d._ Ranelagh house, 10 Lower Grosvenor place, London 31 July
1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxi_ 327–34 (1885),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 159 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 156
(1884), _portrait_.

MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Matthew Pepper Manby, captain
Welsh fusiliers, _d._ 1774). _b._ Denver near Downham Market,
Norfolk 28 Nov. 1765; chaplain of Bourdelais frigate 1801;
captain in Cambridgeshire militia; barrack master at Yarmouth
14 Aug. 1803 to death; invented rocket apparatus for saving
life from shipwreck, first used at wreck of the Elizabeth at
Yarmouth 12 Feb. 1808, it is now used at 302 stations in the
United Kingdom; invented an unimmersible boat 1807; the first
to suggest the apparatus now known as the extincteur for the
extinction of fires 1816; F.R.S. 12 May 1831; author of The
history and antiquities of the parish of St. David, South Wales
1801; An historic guide from Clifton through the counties
of Monmouth, Glamorgan and Brecknock 1802; An essay on the
preservation of shipwrecked persons 1812; Journal of a voyage to
Greenland 1822. _d._ Pedestal house, Southtown, Yarmouth 18 Nov.
1854. _G. W. Manby’s Reminiscences_ (1839); _European Mag. July
1813 pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 267 (1843), _portrait_;
_G.M. Jany. 1822 pp._ 66–70.

MANCHESTER, GEORGE MONTAGU, 6 Duke of (elder son of 5 duke of
Manchester 1768–1843). _b._ Kimbolton castle, St. Neots, Hunts.
9 July 1799; styled viscount Mandeville 1799–1843; entered navy
19 Feb. 1812, lieut. 20 Nov. 1818, commander 19 July 1822,
commander on h.p. to his death; M.P. Hunts. 1826–37; succeeded
18 March 1843; founded the National club, London 1845; author
of Hints upon prophecy 1830; Horæ Hebraicæ 1835; Things hoped
for: second advent 1837; The times of Daniel 1845; The finished
mystery 1847; A chapter on the harmonizing gospels. Dublin 1854,
anon., and other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 Aug. 1855.
_bur._ Kimbolton church 28 Aug.

MANCHESTER, WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU, 7 Duke of Manchester (eld.
child of the preceding). _b._ Kimbolton castle 15 Oct. 1823;
styled lord Kimbolton 1823–43; ensign 11 foot 3 Dec. 1841;
ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 21 Jany. 1842, lieut. and
capt. 1 Dec. 1846; styled viscount Mandeville 1843–55; aide de
camp to sir Peregrine Maitland at Cape of Good Hope 1843–4;
retired from army 17 Sep. 1850; contested Westminster 30 July
1847; M.P. Bewdley 18 April 1848, accepted the Chiltern hundreds
May 1852; M.P. Huntingdonshire 1852–5; lord of bed chamber
to prince Albert 1 March to Dec, 1852; succeeded as 7 duke 18
Aug. 1855; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24
June 1861; LL.D. of Camb. univ. 3 June 1864; K.P. 3 March 1877;
knight of order of Iron Cross of Prussia; president of royal
colonial institute; engaged in commercial ventures in Canada
and Australia; author of Court and society from Elizabeth to
Anne, from the papers at Kimbolton 2 vols. 1864; A letter to
prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar from a spectator of the campaign
of 1870 etc. 1871. _d._ Hôtel Royal, Naples 21 March 1890, body
embalmed and _bur._ at Kimbolton. _Baily’s Mag. xiv_ 163–4
(1868), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 245 (1877) _portrait_, _and 29
March 1890 p._ 390, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890
pp._ 390, 408, _portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 May 1861 p._ 323,
_portrait_; _Times 24 March 1890 p._ 10, _27 March p._ 4.

MANCHESTER GEORGE VICTOR DROGO MONTAGU, 8 Duke of Manchester
(eldest child of the preceding). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 17
June 1853; styled lord Kimbolton 1853–5 and viscount Mandeville
1855–90; captain Armagh militia 30 April 1877 to May 1889; M.P.
Huntingdonshire 1877–80; contested Huntingdonshire, April 1880;
bankrupt 2 April 1889, bankruptcy annulled 8 Aug. 1889, paid
20s. in the pound 1890–91; succeeded as 8 duke 21 March 1890.
_d._ Tanderagee castle, Armagh 18 Aug. 1892.

MANDERS, MR. Proprietor of a menagerie, employing 60 people
1840–71; toured in America; lived in his travelling caravan for
30 years; was in treaty for selling his animals to the French
government 1871; his wife was a well-known Lion queen, she
carried on the menagerie after her husband’s death. He _d._ in
his caravan near Dumfries, Ayrshire 18 Nov. 1871. _The Era 26
Nov. 1871 p._ 12.

MANDERS, LOUISA (dau. of Mr. Powell). _b._ 1801; (_m._ 1820
Thomas Manders 1797–1859); made her first appearance at theatre
royal, Exeter 1825; fell from the flies at Sadler’s Wells and
was much injured 1834; at the Strand, Adelphi and Drury Lane
played old women, and was good as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet;
received a sum of money through an appeal made in The Era 1879.
_d._ 17 April 1880. _bur._ Woking cemet. 21 April. _The Era 25
April 1880 p._ 6.

MANDERS, THOMAS. _b._ 22 Dec. 1797; engaged in one pound note
department of the Bank of England 1814, one pound notes done
away with and his office abolished 1821 when he was pensioned;
went on the stage and toured through Midland counties; manager
of theatre royal, Exeter 1825; (_m._ 1820 Louisa Powell actress
1801–1880); first appeared in London at City theatre, Milton st.
as Justice Greedy; acted at the Strand and Olympic; was at the
Queen’s theatre about 16 years; kept the marquis of Granby, 11
Middle row, Knightsbridge; kept the Sun tavern, Longacre 1838.
_d._ 28 Oct. 1859. _bur._ Woking cemet. _The Era 6 Nov. 1859 p._
15; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 241 (1838), _portrait_; _Actors by
gaslight_ (1838) 81.

MANDEVILLE, JOHN HENRY. Sec. to the commissary for prisoners
of war in France 1801–2; sec. to the embassy at Vienna 1804–9,
at Brussels 1815 and at Frankfort 1817; paid attaché at Paris
1824; sec. of embassy at Lisbon 1828 and at Constantinople 1831;
minister plenipo. at Constantinople 1831–3 and at Buenos Ayres
1835–45 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 16 March 1861. _F.O.
List_, _July 1861 p._ 157.

MANDRON HARVEY, AUGUSTE. _b._ 1813; B.A.; French master St.
Peter’s collegiate school, Eaton square, London; author of Le
vieux chêne. Par l’ auteur de John Hardy le laquais, traduit par
A. Mandron. London 1852. _d._ 41 Kellett road, Brixton, Surrey
16 Dec. 1879.

MANGIN, EDWARD (eld. son of Samuel Henry Mangin, lieut.-col. 14
dragoons, _d._ 1798). _b._ Dublin 15 July 1772; ed. at Balliol
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; preb. of Dysart, Killaloe
cath. 2 March 1798; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 15 Jany.
1800 to 1 Dec. 1803; preb. of Rath in Killaloe cath. 1 Dec. 1803
to death; author of The deserted city 1805. By E. M., a poem on
Bath in summer; Oddities and outlines. By E. M. 2 vols. 1806;
George the third, a novel 3 vols. 1807; Essays on the sources of
the pleasures received from literary compositions 1809, anon., 2
ed. 1813; Piozziana, or recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi.
By A Friend 1833. _d._ 10 Johnstone st. Bath 17 Oct. 1852.
_Peach’s Houses in Bath_, _i_ 146–7 (1883), _ii_ 8, 37–8, 72
(1884).

MANGLES, CHARLES EDWARD (son of James Mangles, M.P. Guildford
1832–7). _b._ 1798; captain H.E.I.C. naval service; M.P. Newport
1857–9; contested Southampton 6 Dec. 1862; chairman of London
and south-western railway 1859–72; resided at Poyle park,
Tongham, Farnham, Surrey. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Oct. 1873.

MANGLES, JAMES. _b._ 1786; entered navy March 1800; commander
of the Racoon sloop 13 June 1815; captain on h.p. 8 Feb. 1853;
travelled in Europe, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor 1817–18;
F.R.S. 20 June 1825; an original fellow and member of council
of Royal Geographical Soc. 1830; author of The floral calendar
1839; Papers and despatches relating to the Arctic searching
expeditions of 1850–1–2. 1852; Thames estuary, guide to the
navigation of the Thames mouth 1853; author with C. L. Irby of
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor in 1817–18. 1823.
_d._ Fairfield, Topsham road, Exeter 18 Nov. 1867.

MANGLES, ROSS DONELLY (younger son of James Mangles of
Woodbridge, Surrey, M.P. Guildford). _b._ 1801; ed. at Eton and
Haileybury coll.; writer in service of H.E.I.C. Bengal, April
1819; spent three years in Europe 1828–31; junior sec. to Sudder
board of revenue in Bengal presidency; director of H.E.I.C. 14
April 1847 and chairman 1857–8; M.P. Guildford 1841–58; member
of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1866; author of A brief
vindication of the India company’s government of Bengal 1830;
Christian reasons of a member of the Church of England for being
a reformer 1840. _d._ 23 Montagu st. Montagu sq. London 16 Aug.
1877. _Annual register_ (1877) 156; _Times 21 Aug. 1877 p._ 4.

MANGOLD, CARL GEORG (son of Ludwig Mangold, violinist). _b._
Darmstadt 27 Sep. 1812; a pupil of Johann N. Hummel; came to
London about 1837; pianist; a teacher of the piano; taught
the princess Mary of Cambridge, duchess of Teck; professor
at Guildhall school of music to 1887; composer of Marche
triumphale, composed for the christening of the Prince of Wales
1842; Les etoiles, morceaux caractéristiques 1855; Six rêveries
for the pianoforte 1855; Six romances sans paroles 1856; Wild
flowers, three impromptus 1862; Three melodies 1863; Night hymn
at sea 1875; author of Harmony 1886; Counterpoint 1886; History
of harmony and counterpoint 1886. _d._ 4 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury,
London 1 Nov. 1887.

MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (son of Frederick Maning of Johnville,
co. Dublin). _b._ 5 July 1812; taken to Van Diemen’s Land
1824; went to New Zealand 1841, won the hearts of the natives
who installed him as a Pakeha Maori or naturalised stranger;
acquired land of the Ngapuhi tribe at Hokianga, settled at Onaki
and married a Maori; a judge of the Native lands court 15 Nov.
1865, resigned 1881; author of Old New Zealand, being incidents
of native customs, by a Pakeha Maori 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The
history of the war in the North with Heki in 1845, both books
were republished in 1876. _d._ London 25 July 1883. _bur._ New
Zealand, his bust is over door of institute library at Auckland.
_G. W. Rusden’s History of New Zealand_, _i_ 22, _ii_ 285, _iii_
515 (1883).

MANISTY, SIR HENRY (2 son of James Manisty V. of Edlingham,
Northumberland). _b._ Edlingham 13 Dec. 1808; ed. at Durham
cathedral gr. sch.; member of firm of Meggison, Pringle and
Manisty, solicitors, London 1830–42; barrister G.I. 23 April
1845, bencher 22 July 1857 to death, treasurer 1861; went
northern circuit; Q.C. 7 July 1857; judge of high court of
justice, queen’s bench division 31 Oct. 1876 to death; knighted
at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1876; author of A letter to sir
F. Pollock on the subject of local courts 1843; seized with
paralysis in court 24 Jany. 1890. _d._ 24A Bryanston sq. London
31 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Feb. _Vanity Fair_,
_xxxvi_ 4–5 (1886) _and 30 Nov. 1889_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_
428 (1876) _portrait and 8 Feb. 1890 p._ 163, _portrait_.

MANKS, RICHARD. _b._ in parish of Solihull, Warwickshire 3
May 1818; known as the Warwickshire antelope and the Eastern
Warwickshire star; ran from Hagley Tap house to Birmingham 9¾
miles with 3 steep hills; ran 3 miles in 17 minutes and won; ran
18½ miles up and down hill within 2 hours on the Coventry road
and won; against Mountjoy picked up 300 stones placed 1 yard
apart 51 miles 540 yards for £30 a side; wheeled a barrow with
5 cwt. 588 yards for £50 a side; ran Jackson the American deer
10 miles £100 a side and beat him: a publican 1847; walked 1000
miles in 1000 hours, starting each time as the clock struck at
the Barrack tavern, Sheffield, being watched by three troops of
the 1 royal dragoons 17 June to 29 July 1850; trained Burton
to fight Tass Parker 19 May 1851; said to have walked 1000
quarter miles in 1000 quarter hours, completing task on 4 July
1851, and 1000 miles in 1000 half hours at the Kennington Oval
10 to 31 Oct. 1851. _Illust. Sporting News 7 July_ (1862) 100,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xvii_ 96 (1850) _portrait_, _xix_ 573, 574
(1851), _portrait_.

MANN, FREDERICK WILLIAM (youngest son of general Gother Mann).
_b._ 1782; ensign royal staff corps 9 Feb. 1804, lieut.-col.
31 Dec. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 July 1834; served at captures
of Genoa and Malta; was under lord Cathcart in Germany; with
sir John Moore in Sweden, Portugal and Spain; under sir John
Doyle aided in constructing military roads in Guernsey; in the
Peninsula 1813–14, at the passage of Bidassoa, at Nivelle and
Toulouse; illustrated Giles Witherne by J. P. Wilson 1863. _d._
De Beavoir, Guernsey 28 July 1871. _I.L.N. 12 Aug. 1871 p._ 139.

MANN, GERARD (son of rev. Horace Mann, R. of Mawgan-in-Meneage,
Cornwall 1816–46). _b._ Mawgan-in-Meneage rectory 20 March
1821; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845; rowed No. 3 in the
Cambridge boat against Oxford and Leander at Thames regatta
1844; rowed bow oar in Cambridge boat which beat Oxford in the
first race over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845 and
which won the grand challenge cup against Oxford at Henley 1845;
he and F. M. Arnold of Caius coll. were the crack pair-oar of
their time and won the silver goblets at Henley with great ease
1845; C. of Alderbury, Wilts. 1847–51; R. of Mawgan, Cornwall
1851 to death. _d._ Mawgan 21 Oct. 1855.

MANN, GOTHER FREDERICK. _b._ 1817; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836,
col. 10 Nov. 1868 to 13 Aug. 1874; M.G. 13 Aug. 1874; C.B. 1
March 1861. _d._ The cottage, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey
2 March 1881.

MANN, HENRY. _b._ 1806; an attentive astronomer who had a
valuable instrument; F.R.A.S. 12 May 1871; an amateur musician;
composer of The Heaton galop. Manchester 1871; resided Spern
Bank near Checkheaton. _d._ 15 Phillimore gardens, Kennington 20
Aug. 1879. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xl_ 204 (1880).

MANN, ROBERT JAMES (son of James Mann of Norwich). _b._ Norwich
1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1878;
surgeon at Norwich, afterwards at Buxton; M.D. St. Andrews 1854;
resided in Natal 1857–66; superintendent of education for Natal
1859–66, established a system of primary education; emigration
agent for Natal in London 1866 to death; pres. of Meteorological
Soc. 3 years; author of The book of health 1850; The philosophy
of reproduction 1855; A guide to the knowledge of life 1856;
The colony of Natal 1860–62; The emigrant’s guide to Natal
1868, 2 ed. 1873 and 15 other books. _d._ 5 Kingsdown villas,
Bolingbroke grove, Wandsworth, London 8 Aug. 1886. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet.

MANN, WILLIAM (3 son of major general Cornelius Mann). _b._
Lewisham, Kent 25 Oct. 1817; went to Gibraltar 1830; second
assistant at royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 1839,
first assistant Dec. 1847 to 1870, erected a new transit-circle
there 1855; communicated his observations of the great comet of
Dec. 1844 and of the transit of Mercury on 4 Nov. 1868 to the
Royal Astronomical Soc.; F.R.A.S. 10 March 1871; granted civil
list pension of £50, 18 June 1873, the value for three years of
this pension was paid to his widow. _d._ Claremont near Cape
Town 30 April 1873. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc.
xxxiv_ 144–8 (1874).

MANNERS, CHARLES HENRY SOMERSET (2 son of Charles Manners, 4
duke of Rutland 1754–87). _b._ 24 Oct. 1780; cornet 10 dragoons
7 Feb. 1798; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 2 July 1812 to 2 June 1825;
M.P. Cambs. 1802–30; M.P. North Leicester 1835–52; C.B. 4 June
1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838; col. 3 dragoons 8 Nov. 1839 to
death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ E3 The Albany, London 25 May
1855.

MANNERS, GEORGE JOHN (3 son of 5 duke of Rutland 1778–1857).
_b._ London 22 June 1820; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1841; cornet royal horse guards 20 Oct. 1840, major 5 March
1861, placed on h.p. 5 June 1866; brevet colonel 5 March 1866;
M.P. Cambridgeshire 1847–57 and 1863 to death; senior steward
of the Jockey club and chairman of committee on condition of
the turf in 1870. _d._ Cheveley park, Newmarket 8 Sep. 1874.
_Baily’s mag. xxii_ 125 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 260,
280 (1874), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 307 (1875); _Graphic_, _x_ 298,
309 (1874), _portrait_.

MANNERS, RUSSELL HENRY (only child of Russell Manners, M.P.)
_b._ London 31 Jany. 1800; ed. at royal naval college; entered
navy 6 March 1816; captain 4 March 1829; retired admiral 12 Sep.
1865; F.R.A.S. 1836, hon. sec. Feb. 1848 to 1858, foreign sec.
1858, president 1868. _d._ 8 Henrietta st. Cavendish square,
London 9 May 1870. _Monthly notices of the R.A.S. xxxi_ 97–99
(1871).

MANNING, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Manning of Billiter sq. London,
West India merchant). _b._ 1796; lived many years at Leamington,
where he erected protestant churches and contributed to all
charitable institutions; published A list of the various
editions of the Boscobel tracts, Leamington 1861; A series of
views illustrative of the Boscobel tracts 1861; A series of
views to illustrate C. Cotton’s The second part of the complete
angler 1866. _d._ Byron lodge, Leamington 15 Jany. 1880. _The
Warwickshire Times 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 5.

MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Copped
hall, Totteridge, Herts. 15 July 1808; ed. at Harrow 1822–7
and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of Merton
coll. 27 April 1832; C. of Wool Lavington, Sussex, Dec. 1832, R.
of Wool Lavington 10 June 1833; R. of Graffham, Sussex 16 Sep.
1833, rebuilt both his churches; second rural dean of Midhurst
1837; archdeacon of Chichester 30 Dec. 1840, resigned 22 Nov.
1850; select preacher at Oxford 1842; a leader of the high
church party; received into the Church of Rome at the Jesuits’
ch. in Farm st. mews by Father Brownbill 6 April 1851; ordained
priest by Cardinal Wiseman 14 June 1851; studied at Rome 1851–4;
received degree of D.D. from Pius IX. 1854; provost of the
chapter of Westminster 1857; superior of the Congregation of the
Oblates of St. Charles at 10 Westmoreland place, Bayswater 31
May 1857 to 1865; domestic prelate to the Pope and protonotary
apostolic with title of Monsignore 1860; archbishop of
Westminster 30 April 1865 to death, consecrated at St. Mary’s,
Moorfields 8 June and enthroned there 6 Nov.; established
the Westminster diocesan education fund 1866; founded the
pro-cathedral church of our lady of victories, between 12 and 13
Newland terrace, Kensington 1867; founded a University college
at Wright’s lane, Kensington 1874, which was closed 1878;
founded the Diocesan seminary of St. Thomas, Cupola house, King
st. East, Hammersmith 1876; created cardinal-priest by Pius IX.
15 March 1875, enthroned in church of St. Gregory the Great on
the Cœlian hill, Rome 31 March 1875, received the cardinal’s
hat 31 Dec. 1877; founded the temperance society known as The
League of the Cross 1868; member of royal commissions on housing
of the working classes 1884–5 and on the elementary education
acts 1886–7; author of Sermons 4 vols. 1842–50; Sermons preached
before the university of Oxford 1844; Sermons on ecclesiastical
subjects 3 vols. 1863–73; Miscellanies 3 vols. 1877–88; The
grounds of faith, four lectures 1852, 6 ed. 1881, besides 100
other works; he also edited, supplied prefaces to, and was
connected with 60 other works. _d._ Carlisle place, Vauxhall
bridge road, London at 8 a.m. 14 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Mary’s
cemet. Kensal Green 22 Jany. _A. W. Hutton’s Cardinal Manning_
(1892), _portrait_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _iii_ 378,
381–95 (1877); _Century Mag. May 1883 pp._ 129–31, _portrait_;
_Strand Mag. ii_ 52–60 (1891), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 20 May
1865 p._ 309, _portrait_.

MANNING, JAMES (son of James Manning of Exeter, Unitarian
minister). _b._ Exeter 1781; barrister L.I. 23 June 1817;
went Western circuit, leader of it many years; recorder of
Sudbury 1835 to death; recorder of Oxford and Banbury, Nov.
1837 to death; serjeant-at-law 19 Feb. 1840; received patent
of precedence April 1845; queen’s ancient serjeant 1846, which
dignity revived at his own suggestion entitled him to a seat
in the house of lords; judge of Whitechapel county court,
March 1847, retired on pension of £700, Feb. 1863, was one of
the 5 judges appointed Aug. 1856 to frame rules for conduct
of the practice and also scales of costs; author of A digest
of the nisi prius reports 1820; The practice of the Court of
Exchequer, revenue branch 1827, and other books; author with
Archer Ryland of Reports of cases in the court of King’s bench
1827–1830. 5 vols. 1828–37; author with T. C. Granger of Cases
argued and determined in the court of Common Pleas 1840–1845. 7
vols. 1841–6; author with T. C. Granger and J. Scott of Common
Bench reports 1845–1849. 8 vols. 1846–51; _m._ (2) 3 Dec. 1857
Charlotte dau. of Isaac Solly of Layton, Essex, and widow of
Wm. Speir, M.D. of Calcutta, she was author of Life in ancient
India 1856 and Ancient and mediæval India 2 vols. 1869. _d._ 44
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 29 Aug. 1866.

MANNING, JOHN. _b._ Aldersgate st. London 1825; appeared
at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. under Charles James as a
tragedian; acted at Newcastle-under-Lyne; a parliamentary
agent in London; appeared at Theatre royal and Liver theatre,
Liverpool; was at the Marylebone, London, under E. T. Smith
1852; acted at the Grecian Saloon in The two Gregories 1855; a
well known low comedian at The Grecian. _d._ 18 March 1890. _The
Players 6 July 1861 p._ 1, _portrait_.

MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Manning of London, sculptor, _d._
1847). Began to practise modelling 1829; received from Society
of Arts gold medal for a model of a statue of Prometheus,
executed this statue in marble and exhibited it at the R.A.
in 1845, it was engraved by B. Holl in the ‘Art Union’ for
1846; sculptor at 3 Union place, New road, London 1847–59, at
66 Marylebone road 1859–65; exhibited sculptures at the R.A.
1845–58. _d._ 1865.

MANNING, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Manning, mayor of Leicester). _b._
Leicester 1822; studied at Baptist college at Bristol 1840
and at Glasgow univ.; baptist minister at Sheppard’s Barton,
Frome, Somerset 1846–61; edited the Baptist Mag. some years;
general book editor of Religious tract society 1863, one of the
secretaries 1876 to death; LL.D. Chicago; author of Infidelity
tested by fact, a series of papers reprinted from The Church
1850; edited Selections from the prose writings of John Milton
1862; projected the Religious tract society’s series of
illustrated books of travel 1870, and wrote several of them.
_d._ 35 Ladbroke grove, London 13 Sep. 1881. _S. A. Swaine’s
Faithful baptist men of Bristol college_ (1884) 327.

MANNING, WILLIAM OKE (son of Wm. Oke Manning of Lloyd’s, London,
insurance broker). _b._ 1809; ed. at Bristol; entered his
father’s counting-house; author of Commentaries on the law of
nations 1839, new ed. 1875, being the first English treatise
on the subject; Remarks upon religious tests at the English
universities 1846, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle. _d._
8 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 15 Nov. 1878.
_Athenæum 30 Nov. 1878 p._ 689.

MANNING, WILLIAM THOMAS. Member of firm of Hanslip and Manning,
solicitors 20 Thavies inn, Holborn, London 1844; member of
firm of Hanslip, Manning and Conworth, parliamentary agents 12
Hatton Garden 1850–53; coroner of the Queen’s household and of
the Verge, May 1853 to death. _d._ The Old Farm, New park road,
Clapham park, Brixton 10 Jany. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxiv_ 214,
252 (1888).

MANNINGHAM-BULLER, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (2 son of sir Francis
Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2 baronet 1767–1833). _b._ Churston
Ferrers, Devon 19 July 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825; M.P. for North Staffs. 1837–41, contested North
Staffs. July 1847, M.P. North Staffs. 1865–74; M.P. for Stafford
1841–7; sheriff of Staffs. 1853; took surname of Manningham
before that of Buller by r.l. 4 Jany. 1866; created baronet 20
Jany. 1866. _d._ Dilhorn hall, Cheadle, Staffs. 22 Sep. 1882.

MANSELL, ARTHUR LUKIS (2 son of sir Thomas Mansell 1777–1858).
_b._ 1815; entered navy 8 Sep. 1831; captain 1 Jany. 1865,
retired 7 March 1866; retired V.A. 14 May 1888. _d._ 28 Feb.
1890.

MANSEL, CHARLES GRENVILLE. _b._ 1807; a writer in H.E.I. Co.’s
service 30 April 1826; deputy accountant general in Calcutta
1841; member of board of administration for the affairs of the
Punjab 1849–50; resident at Nagpur, Nov. 1850, retired on the
annuity fund 1855; author of Report on the settlement of the
district of Agra 1842. _d._ 7 Mills terrace, West Brighton 19
Nov. 1886.

MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of Henry Longueville Mansel
1783–1835, R. of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire). _b._ Cosgrove
rectory 6 Oct. 1820; entered Merchant Taylors’ school 29 Sep.
1830; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 11 June 1839, took a
double first 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1852, D.D. 1867;
took private pupils 1843–55; fellow of his college 1839–55
and 1864–7, hon. fellow 1868 to death, tutor 1850–64; reader
in moral and metaphysical theology at Magd. coll. Oxf. 1855;
professor fellow of St. John’s coll. 8 April 1864, and the first
honorary fellow Oct. 1868; Bampton lecturer 1858; Waynflete
professor of philosophy 1859; select preacher at Oxf. 1860–2
and 1869–71; examining chaplain to bishop of Peterborough
1864–8; regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxf. and
canon of Ch. Ch. 5 Jany. 1867 to Oct. 1868; dean of St. Paul’s
21 Oct. 1868 to death; author of The demons of the wind and
other poems 1838; Scenes from an unfinished drama entitled
Phrontisterion, or Oxford in the nineteenth century 1850, 4 ed.
1852; Prolegomena logica, an inquiry into the psychological
character of logical processes 1851; The limits of religious
thought, eight Bampton lectures 1858, 5 ed. 1867. _d._ in his
sleep at Cosgrove hall, the residence of his son-in-law 31 July
1871, memorial window in north chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral
unveiled 25 Jany. 1879. _J. W. Burgon’s Twelve good men_ (1891)
321–66, _portrait_; _Our bishops and deans. By Rev. F. Arnold_,
_ii_ 273–75 (1875); _Church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 39; _I.L.N. lix_ 127, 128, 311
(1871), _portrait_; _Quarterly Review_, _clix_ 1–39 (1885).

MANSEL, JOHN. _b._ 1777; ensign 53 foot March 1795, lieut.
colonel 12 Feb. 1818 to 9 Aug. 1827; C.B. 4 June 1815; sold out
of the army 1855. _d._ Smeadmore, Dorset 29 Jany. 1863.

MANSEL, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of sir Wm. Mansel, 7
bart. 1739–1804). _bapt._ 12 Feb. 1789; ensign 10 foot 29 Jany.
1807; captain 53 foot 8 July 1813; placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1817;
colonel of 68 foot 4 June 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H.
1832. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 April 1864.

MANSELL, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey). _b._
Guernsey 9 Feb. 1777; entered navy 20 Jany. 1793; present at
battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander of the Rose
sloop 1808–13 and of the Pelican 1813–4, captured 170 of the
enemy’s vessels; presented with order of the Sword by king of
Sweden 1812; captain 7 June 1814, retired 1 Oct. 1846; K.C.H. 1
Jany. 1837, knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 1 March
1837; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1849. _d._ Guernsey 22 April 1858.

MANSEL, THOMAS, _baptized_ 14 Oct. 1783; entered navy 1798;
served at battle of Copenhagen; captain 12 Feb. 1834; retired
admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Fareham, Kent 1 April 1869.

MANSFIELD, CHARLES BLACKFORD (son of John Mansfield, R. of
Rowner, Hampshire). _b._ Rowner 8 May 1819; ed. at Twyford and
Winchester; began residence at Clare hall, Camb. Oct. 1839, B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849; lived at a cost of a few pence a day and gave
his savings to the poor; studied at royal college of chemistry
1846–8; discovered and patented the extraction of benzol from
coal-tar 1848, which laid foundation of the aniline industry;
went to Paraguay 1852; lectured on the chemistry of the metals
at royal institution 1851–2; author of Benzol, its nature and
utility 1849; Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate 1856; the naptha on
which he was experimenting boiled over and so scalded him that
he _d._ Middlesex hospital, London 26 Feb. 1855. _Mansfield’s
Paraguay_ (1856), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, EDWARD. Sub-lieutenant royal naval reserve 1 Aug.
1890; aimed at promoting the use of balloons and parachutes for
both military and naval warfare; made a successful ascent in his
balloon Wanderer at Bombay 13 Nov. 1891 when he descended by his
parachute from an altitude of upwards of 11,000 feet; ascended
again from Victoria gardens, Bombay 10 Dec. 1891, the balloon
burst at a height of about 400 feet and he fell to the ground
mangled and dead. _Daily Graphic 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8, _31 Dec.
p._ 1, _portrait_.

MANSFIELD, HORATIO (5 son of John Mansfield, barrister). _b._
1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; fellow of
his coll. 1843–52; barrister I.T. 6 June 1853, went northern
circuit; a writer in the Morning Chronicle and Saturday Review
many years; deputy stip. magistrate for Liverpool 1872 to death.
_d._ Liverpool 13 Aug. 1887.

MANSFIELD, JAMES. _b._ 1775; a butcher at Debden, Essex;
exhibited himself at the Leicester square rooms, London about
1846 as the ‘Greatest man in the world.’ _d._ Debden, Essex 9
Nov. 1856. _G.M. i_ 786 (1856).

NOTE.--He measured 9 feet round, and weighed 33 stone of 14 lbs. When sitting on his chair his abdomen covered his knees and hung down almost to the ground; when he reclined it was necessary to pack his head to prevent suffocation.

MANSFIELD, RALPH. _b._ Toxteth park, Liverpool 12 March 1799;
ordained minister of Wesleyan church 1820; stationed at Sydney,
N.S.W. Oct. 1820 to 1822, at Parramatta and Windsor during
1823, at Hobart Town 1823–5, at Sydney again 1825–8; edited
Sydney Gazette, first newspaper published in N.S.W. 1829–32;
leader writer for The Colonist, Sydney paper, several years;
contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald from 1841; secretary
of Sydney gas-light company 29 June 1836 to death. _d._ Sydney.
June 1880.

MANSFIELD, SAMUEL (son of John Mansfield of Diggeswell house,
Herts. _d._ 1841, and brother of first baron Sandhurst _d._
1876). _b._ 1815; entered Bengal civil service 1834; political
agent Rewa Kantha 1847; collector and magistrate Kandeish 1852;
revenue comr. Northern division 1859; senior member of council
Bombay 14 May 1867, retired upon the annuity fund 1872; a patron
of the Western India turf; C.S.I. 25 May 1866. _d._ 23 Hanover
sq. London 23 Dec. 1893.

MANSON, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Bombay artillery 1810, col.
16 April 1849 to death; M.G. 26 Dec. 1844; commanded Scinde
division of Bombay army 1 April 1848 to death; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831. _d._ Bombay 23 Feb. 1852.

MANSON, DAVID. _b._ 1838; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1859, M.D.
and C.M. 1862; in practise in London 1862–4; resident physician
Strathpeffer spa 1864–71 and 1882 to death; in practise at
Chesterfield 1871–82; author of On the sulphur waters of
Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Rossshire 1877, 3 ed. 1879,
4 ed. abridged 1881; On the sulphur and chalybeate waters of
Strathpeffer spa, 5 ed. 1884. _d._ Eaglestone, Strathpeffer 9
May 1884.

MANSON, GEORGE (son of Magnus Manson, merchant). _b._ Edinburgh
3 Dec. 1850; apprenticed as a wood engraver to W. and R.
Chambers, publishers 1866–71; studied in the school of art,
Edinb. 1871; exhibited a figure subject at R.A. London 1873;
his paintings dealing with homely subjects are realistic
transcripts from nature, notable for their colour, many of them
are reproduced in his Memoir. _d._ Lympstone, Devon 27 Feb.
1876. _bur._ Gulliford church near Lympstone. _G. Manson and
his works_, 27 _plates_. _Edinb._ (1880), _memoir pp._ 1–22,
_portrait_.

MANSON, JAMES. _b._ 1792; entered Bengal army 1807; ensign 8
Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1808, lieut. 2 June 1814; captain 72 N.I.
13 May 1825, major 11 July 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; lieut.-col.
28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to 1848; comr. with Bajee Rao, Bithoor 16
Sep. 1831 to 1851; lieut.-col. of 42 N.I. 1848–50, of 48 N.I.
1850–52, of 20 N.I. 1852–4, of 21 N.I. 1854–55, of 53 N.I.
1855–7, and of 44 N.I. 1857 to death; M.G. 15 May 1859. _d._ 14
Westbourne sq. London 15 July 1862.

MANSON, JAMES BOLIVAR. _b._ Scotland 1823; ed. Aberdeen, B.A.;
tutor, then schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of Stirling
Observer; editor of Northern Daily express; on editorial staff
of Edinburgh daily review 1862 to death; author of The Bible
in school, a vindication of the Scottish system of education
1852; Contemporary Scottish art, pen and ink pictures from the
Exhibition 1865. _died_ suddenly while writing a leading article
at 16 Keir street, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_,
_iii_ 18 (1869); _The Daily Rev. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1868 p._ 2.

MANSON, WILLIAM. Joined James Stirling Christie and George Henry
Christie, auctioneers of pictures and works of art at 8 King st.
St. James’, London 1831; Edward Manson a brother was afterward
admitted a partner and d. 1884. _d._ 5 Portugal st. Grosvenor
sq. London 19 June 1852. _D. Puseley’s Commercial companion_
(1858) 67–8; _All the year round 8 May 1875 pp._ 125–32.

NOTE.--This business was established by James Christie in 1761 (first catalogue dated 5 Dec. 1766), who dying in 1803 was succeeded by his son James Christie, who dying 1831 left it to his two sons mentioned above. Mr. Thomas Hoade Woods was admitted a partner in 1859. The business was removed from Pall Mall to King st. in 1824. In Christie’s sale catalogue may be traced the history of fine art taste in England for more than a century.

MANT, WALTER BISHOP (eld. son of Richard Mant 1776–1848, bishop
of Down, Connor and Dromore). _b._ Buriton, Hampshire 25 June
1807; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; archdeacon
of Connor 1831; R. of Hillsborough, co. Down, and archdeacon of
Down, Oct. 1834 to death; author of Horæ Apostolicæ 1839; The
man of sorrows, five discourses. Oxford 1852; Memoirs of Richard
Mant. Dublin 1857; Christophoros and other poems 1861; Bible
quartetts [1862] 3 numbers; Scientific quartetts [1862–3] 6
numbers. _d._ archdeaconry, Hillsborough 6 April 1869.

MANTELL, EDWARD REGINALD. _b._ 1799; ed. Em. coll. Camb., B.A.
1821, M.A. 1825; C. of Dartford, Kent 1823–6; C. of Bexley,
Kent 1826–8; C. of Ticehurst, Sussex 1828–31; V. of Louth and
Tetney, Lincs. 1831–59; preb. of Louth in Lincoln cath. 1845 to
death; R. of Gretford with Wilsthorpe, Lincs. 1859 to death;
dean of the peculiar of Stamford 1863 to death; R.D. of Ness
1864–76. _d._ Parkbury, St. Albans 29 May 1884. _The law of
marriage, correspondence between Mr. Allison and E. R. Mantell
on marriage with a deceased wife’s sister_ (1850).

MANTELL, GIDEON ALGERNON (son of a shoemaker). _b._ parish of
St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes 3 Feb. 1790; articled to James Moore,
surgeon, Lewes, partner with him; M.R.C.S. 1811, hon. F.R.C.S.
1844; practised at Lewes 1835–9, at Clapham Common 1839–45 and
in London 1845 to death; sold his fine collection of fossils to
British Museum for £5000, 1838; opened many tumuli about Lewes;
lectured frequently at Royal Institution; F.L.S. 1813; F.G.S.
1818, Wollaston medallist 1835, one of its secretaries 1841–2,
vice pres. 1848–9; F.R.S. 24 Nov. 1825, royal medallist 1849;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Aug. 1852; author of The
fossils of the South Downs 1822; The wonders of geology 2 vols.
1838, 7 ed. 1849; The medals of creation 2 vols. 1844; On the
remains of man 1850. _d._ 19 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 10 Nov.
1852. _bur._ St. Michael’s church, Lewes, where is memorial
tablet. _A reminiscence of G. A. Mantell_ (1853), _memoir pp._
18–26; _G.M. xxxviii_ 644–47 (1852), _xxxix_ 2 (1853); _Medical
Circular_, _i_ 89, 443 (1852), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnean
society_, _ii_ 235–37 (1855); _Quarterly journal of geological
society_, _ix_ 22–25 (1853); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_
(1865) 158–60; _Physic and physicians_, _ii_ 306–8 (1839).

MANTELL, SIR JOHN ILES (eld. son of George Mantell, M.D. of
Faringdon, Berkshire). _b._ Faringdon 1 Dec. 1813; barrister
M.T. 18 June 1847; queen’s advocate of the Gambia 24 Aug. 1841,
chief justice and judge of the court of vice admiralty of the
Gambia 20 Oct. 1847 to 1866; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867;
stipendiary magistrate for borough of Salford and Manchester
petty sessional division of county 7 Sep. 1869 to Dec. 1885.
_d._ Biarritz 12 July 1893.

MANTELL, JOSHUA (younger brother of G. A. Mantell 1790–1852).
_b._ 1795; L.S.A. 1828; surgeon at Newick, Sussex; founded
the Newick horticultural society 1832; principal editor of
John Baxter’s The library of agricultural and horticultural
knowledge. 2 ed. Lewes 1842, 4 ed. 1846, and of The farmer’s
annual; author of Floriculture, comprising management of stove,
greenhouse and herbaceous plants 1832; thrown from his horse
and received an injury to his brain, removed to Dr. Newington’s
asylum at Ticehurst 1835 where he _d._ May 1865. _G.M. June 1865
p._ 800.

MANTLE, THOMAS ALLEN. _b._ Kates hill near Dudley 31 Jany.
1840; came to London about 1852; a brass finisher by trade;
professional cricketer at Westminster school from 3 May 1862 to
death; played in the Middlesex eleven, scored 1010 runs in 1866;
first played at Lords 10 June 1867 in England v. Middlesex;
a good all-round player; resided at the Lodge, Vincent sq.
Westminster. _d._ 29 April 1884.

MANVERS, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Ward Marshall. _b._
Oxford; a singer in Christ Church cath.; studied in Italy; a
leading tenor in U.S. of America; sang in London at the Ancient
concerts, the Philharmonic soc. and the Sacred harmonic soc.;
leading tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane during
Bunn’s management 1833; retired owing to an attack of chronic
asthma. _d._ 22 Feb. 1874. _The Athenæum 28 Feb. 1874 p._ 301.

MAPLESON, CHARLES (2 son of James Henry Mapleson, operatic
impresario). _b._ 1855; acting manager to his father in London
and U.S. of America; m. Malvina Cavalazzi the dancer. _d._ of
rheumatic gout at 10 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 20 Nov.
1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 24 Nov.

MAPLESON, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1802 or 1803; violinist in Drury
Lane theatre about 40 years, was also musical librarian to the
theatre. _d._ 46 Leicester sq. London 6 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet.

MAPLETON, REGINALD JOHN (3 son of rev. James Henry Mapleton
of Christ Church, Stamford st. Surrey). _b._ 9 Dec. 1817; ed.
Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1826, Stuart exhibitioner to St. John’s
coll. Oxf. 1836, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1857; C. of Horsehouse, Yorks.
1842–4; C. of Berkswell, Warws. 1844–51; V. of Great Glen,
Leics. 1851–5; C. of Saxby, Leics. 1855–9; incumb. of St.
Columba, Kilmartin, Argyllshire 1859–86; dean of Argyll and the
Isles, and canon of Cumbrae 1886 to death. _d._ Duntroon castle,
Lochgilphead 30 Jany. 1892.

MAPPIN, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ 1800; brewer in partnership with Mr.
Bradley at Ecclesall road, Sheffield; proprietor of the Old
brewery, Masbro’; erected St. John’s ch. Ranmoor at his own
charge of £12,000, 1838; gave the east window of the chancel
of St. Peter’s church, Sheffield 1857 as a memorial of James
Montgomery who _d._ 1854; left his pictures with £15,000 for a
picture gallery to town of Sheffield, among his pictures are
many by Pettie, J. Phillips, Creswick and F. Goodall; erected
a residence at Birchlands 1856. _d._ Birchlands, Ranmoor,
Sheffield 22 Oct. 1883. _bur._ Eccleshall churchyard 25 Oct.
_Sheffield Independent 23 Oct. 1883 p._ 3.

MAR and KELLIE, WALTER HENRY ERSKINE, 11 Earl of Mar and 13
Earl of Kellie (1 son of 12 earl of Kellie 1810–72). _b._ India
17 Dec. 1839; ed. at Radley and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1862, M.A. 1866; succeeded as 13 earl of Kellie 15 Jany. 1872;
established his claim to the earldom of Mar before the house of
lords 26 Feb. 1875; as viscount Fentoun was premier viscount of
Scotland; capt. highland border militia; a representative peer
for Scotland, Dec. 1876; grand master mason of Scotland, _d._
Alloa house, Clackmannans 16 Sep. 1888. _R. F. Gould’s History
of freemasonry i_ 200 (1884), _portrait_; _Minutes of evidence
before committee of privilege on claim to earldom of Mar 4
parts_ 1868–75.

MARA, RICHARD WESTON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A.
1836, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; called to Irish bar 1840; attorney
general and judge advocate of island of Antigua 5 Feb. 1859 to
death; acted as chief justice 1863–64. _d._ Antigua 4 April
1871. SOLICITORS’ JOURNAL, _xv_ 496 (1871).

MARCET, FRANÇOIS (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 25 May
1803; lived greater part of his life in canton of Geneva
where he was professor of physics in the academy; member of
Geneva legislature and government; resided at 14 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 1873 to death; member of council of Univ.
college, London; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1836; author of Dissertation
sur cette question, convient’il d’ accorder un dédommagement au
prévenu absous? Genève 1825; Cours de physique experimentale.
Genève 1836; edited and revised Conversations on natural
philosophy by Jane Marcet 1872. _d._ 14 Stratton st. London 12
April 1883.

MARCET, JANE (only dau. of Francis Haldimand, Swiss merchant).
_b._ London 1769; (_m._ 4 Dec. 1799 Alexander John Gaspard
Marcet, physician, London, _d._ 19 Oct. 1822 aged 52); author
of Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of
that science are familiarly explained 2 vols. 1806, 16 ed.
1853; Conversations on political economy 1816, 5 ed. 1824;
Conversations on natural philosophy 1819, 14 ed. 1872; The game
of grammar, with 290 small cards and 24 counters 1842; Rich and
poor 1851, and 15 other books for children. _d._ 14 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 28 June 1858. _H. Martineau’s Biographical
Sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 368–92; _S. J. Hale’s Women’s Record 2
ed._ (1855) 732.

MARCH, CHARLES (son of Richard March, weaver of woollen yarn).
_b._ Boutport st. Barnstaple 15 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Dec.
1807, present at bombardment of Algiers; in the merchant service
1824–32; an agent of the Bible soc.; a shipping agent with
Mr. Bird at Gloucester 1835; commander R.N. July 1864. _d._
Gloucester 17 March 1865. _Memorials of Charles March by his
nephew Septimus March_ (1867), _portrait_.

MARCH, WILLIAM HENRY. Second lieut. R.M. 20 Nov. 1830; served
in Spain 1836–40; fought at Balaclava, wounded at Inkerman; in
command at Shanghai 1860 when he repulsed two attacks of the
Chinese; col. R.M. 16 May 1862, col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864;
retired on full pay as hon. major general 20 Nov. 1865; received
a general officer’s good service pension of £200 in 1890; C.B.
24 May 1873; knight of legion of honour and of Medjidie. _d._ 73
Cambridge terrace, London 5 Jany. 1892.

MARCHANT, FREDERICK. _b._ 1837; actor; wrote for the Britannia
theatre, Honest labour, drama 3 Aug. 1870; Sharps and flats,
drama 15 Aug. 1870; The three perils, drama 5 Oct. 1870; The
man loaded with mischief, pantomime 26 Dec. 1870, and What will
become of him, drama 20 May 1872; for the Victoria theatre, A
rolling stone sometimes gathers moss, drama 15 Oct. 1870 and
Nimble Nip, pantomime 24 Dec. 1870; for the New East London
theatre, Little Bo Peep, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Under the
shadow of Old St. Paul’s, drama 12 Oct. 1872, and Windsor
castle, drama 15 Feb. 1873; for the New Pavilion theatre, Rip
Van Winkle, pantomime 23 Dec. 1871; Harlequin Hop o’ my thumb,
pantomime 26 Dec. 1872, and Puss in boots, pantomime 26 Dec.
1873; for Marylebone theatre, What will become of him, drama 18
Sep. 1874. _d._ London 17 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 24
Dec.

MARCHANT, W. T. _b._ 1836; editor of the British Mail and
universal trade review; author of Betrothals and bridals, with
a chat about wedding cakes 1879; In praise of ale, or songs
relating to beer, malt and hops 1888. _d._ Acacia cottage,
Balham road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 31 Dec. 1888.

MARCON, WALTER (4 son of John Marcon of Swaffham, Norfolk). _b._
Swaffham 28 March 1824; ed. at Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1846; in Eton eleven 1841 and 1842, and in Oxford eleven
1843 and 1844; the fastest bowler known, the pace was terrific
always requiring two long stops, nor was a wicket keeper of the
slightest use; bowled 4 wickets in succession in match Swaffham
_v._ Attleborough 4 July 1850; R. of Edgefield, Holt, Norfolk
1848–76. _d._ 1881. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 40
(1863).

MARCUS, LEWIS. Ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831;
head master Holbeach gram. sch.; C. of Biggleswade 1827–41; V.
of St. Paul’s, Finsbury 1846 to death; professor of Latin in
city of London college for ladies, Finsbury; author of A Latin
grammar 1861; Elementary Latin, a delectus of exercises 2 parts
1862–4. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Bunhill row, Finsbury 12 June
1879.

MARCUS, OTTO CHARLES. _b._ 1825; assistant in University
library, Cambridge; author of Marcus’s Conversation guide or
dialogues in English, French, German, Russian, Polish and
Swedish languages 1855. _d._ Cambridge 11 May 1865.

MARDON, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1792; ed. York coll. and Glasgow univ.,
M.A.; Unitarian minister Glasgow 9 years; minister of General
Baptist chapel, Worship st. Finsbury sq. London 26 years; member
of British Archæol. Assoc. 1845, wrote on The burial place of
the widow of Milton in Journal 1850 pp. 322–6, 418; author of A
letter to Dr. Chalmers occasioned by his notice of unitarians
1818; The truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1822; The
apostle Paul, an unitarian 1826; Christianity identified with
unitarianism 1835; The catholic epistle of John the apostle,
translated from the Greek 1853; resided at Sidmouth. _d._ Exeter
15 April 1866.

MARDON, EDWARD RUSSELL. Billiard player; a frequenter of
Newmarket; a great opponent of P.P. (play or pay) betting;
resided at Brighton; author of Billiards, game 500 up, played
at Brighton on 18th January 1844. Brighton 1844, 3 ed. 1858; On
P.P. betting. _Sporting Review_, _May 1858 p._ 365.

MARDYN, MRS. (dau. of poor parents). _b._ Ireland or Chichester
1789 or 1795; a servant in an inn and a helper in the bar; _m._
1811 Mr. Mardyn an actor on the Portsmouth circuit, from whom
she separated, when she allowed him two pounds a week, he died
about 1819; an actress and dancer in the provinces and at the
West London theatre, London (now the Marylebone) 1811; educated
under W. Dimond manager of the Bath theatre 1813–14; played at
Crow st. theatre, Dublin; first appeared at Drury Lane as Amelia
Wildenheim in Lovers’ Vows 26 Sep. 1815; some attention paid her
by Lord Byron was one of the causes of his disagreement with his
wife 1815, she was then hissed at Drury Lane by a fashionable
clique but she appealed to the audience who took her part; she
was good in Albina Mandeville in The Will 17 Oct. 1815, and as
Peggy in The Country Girl 7 Nov. 1815; played Jacintha in the
Suspicious Husband 11 Oct. 1819; made her last appearance at
Drury Lane as Miss Wooburn in Every one has his faults 19 June
1820; _m._ 1821 a foreign gentleman who soon after purchased the
title of Baron R----. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _i_ 269–80
(1826), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_
198–207 (1844); _Georgian Era_, _iv_ 573–4 (1834); _T. Medwin’s
Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron. New York_ (1824) 24, 28;
_T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_ (1847) 284.

MARETT, SIR ROBERT PIPON (son of Peter Daniel Marett, major
Madras army). _b._ 20 Nov. 1820; ed. at Caen and the Sorbonne,
Paris; advocate of royal court of Jersey 1840; constable of St.
Helier 1856; solicitor general of Jersey 19 Feb. 1858, attorney
general 1866 to 10 March 1880, and bailiff 10 March 1880 to
death; knighted by patent 31 May 1880; edited Les manuscrits de
P. L. Geyt 1846; author of several poems in the Jersey patois
published in Rimes et poësies Jersiaises edited by Abraham
Mourant 1865 and in the Patois poems of the Channel Islands
edited by J. L. Pitts 1883. _d._ St. Aubin’s, Jersey 10 Nov.
1884. _Law Times 15 Nov. 1884 p._ 51.

MARGARY, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). _b._
Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr.
sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese
consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a
third class assistant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland
journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and
travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo
17 Jany. 1875, being the first Englishman traversing this
route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China
19 Feb. 1875; _murdered_ at Manwein on the Chinese frontier
21 Feb. 1875. _Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu.
Shanghai_ 1875; _The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to
Bhamo_ (1876), _preface pp. i–xxi_, _portrait_; _J. Anderson’s
Mandalay to Momien_ (1876) 364–449; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 233, 257
(1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 296 (1875), _portrait_.